I've been talking to one of the UK Debian CD/DVD sellers about the
sarge release. Woody sold well as a DVD set - binaries on one CD and
source on another. Sarge, of course, is a lot bigger. I've been
looking into the issues in creating DVDs. What would be
really nice would be selling sarge on dual-layer DVDs
in the same way. It would be slightly more expensive to produce, but
end users installing sarge would have an easy time - boot a single
disc and just hit go.

(DVD18 is apparently very much a deprecated format. While there are
no problems with drives reading them, manufacturing is a pig and there
are reliability problems with the discs.)

With the above in mind, I'm hoping that we can fit sarge on a
single DVD9 for binaries. Double-sided DVD10 discs are not ideal for
installation; users will have to flip discs while installing. BUT: we
have a problem. Fitting sarge onto a DVD9 is going to be awkward. The
latest test images I've created don't fit for several of the
architectures:

I'm not sure where to go from here. Powerpc is
HUGE!; i386 doesn't fit either. Those are the 2
architectures I'm really targeting with this to start with. Maybe it's
time to start excluding things from the DVD build. We've done that
before when doing CD releases, but it's not something to do
lightly.